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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as hired guns employed to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal UK production in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled story of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his flock through the upturned ship to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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